Viasat's new free space optical communication terminal is designed to deliver high-performance and resilient connectivity in contested environments The Viasat Mercury solution is an expeditionary, ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., March 24, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-lumin has successfully demonstrated a roundtrip optical transmission from its 15cm Optical Ground Terminal (OGT) to a retroreflector-equipped ...

Mynaric has been selected to work on the architectural design of a next-generation optical communications terminal as part of the phase 0 of the Space Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) ...

Laser communications company Archangel Lightworks has secured new funding to fuel its optical terminal technology. The company this week announced the closure of an oversubscribed £10 million ($14m) ...

Mynaric artist's concept of a satellite equipped with optical communications terminals. Credit: Mynaric WASHINGTON — Mynaric, a supplier of laser communications terminals, was selected by the Space ...

ARVADA, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xairos Systems today announced a significant milestone for the Ares Quantum Optical Terminal, a robust system designed to deliver quantum-secure, high-data-rate ...

NASA's LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, has transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD (TeraByte Infrared Delivery), a ...

MBRYONICS, an innovative Satellite Communications and Photonics equipment provider, has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)to develop the optical terminal, ...

The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule that launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 9 is carrying an optical communications terminal to demonstrate data rates of 1.2 gigabits per ...

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission's 10-day journey around the moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and ...